Full Description
In this volume an international team explores the historical dimensions of a pervasive and controversial issue of our time: the fate of ethnic groups in societies under severe stress. Although this book focusses on the extreme situations of the two world wars, parallels with more recent eruptions of violence and the widespread re-emergence of racism in the wake of dislocation and disorientation of large populations are striking. This pioneering book fills an obvious gap in the field of minority history and the study of war and society.
Contents
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Dominant Societies and Minorities in the Two World Wars Panikos Panayi
Part II: Europe
2. The Kiss of France: The Republic and the Alsatians during the First World War Paul Smith
3. The Role of the Special Organisation in the Armenian Genocide during the First World War Vahakn Dadrian
4. Frontiers of Genocide: Jews in the Eastern War Zones, 1914-1920 and 1941 Mark Levene
5. Sex and Semitism: Jewish Women in Britain in War and Peace Tony Kushner
6. 'British Justice at Work': Internment in the Second World War Colin Holmes
Part III: North America
7. Citizenship and Rights on the Home Front during the First World War: The 'Great Migration' and the 'New Negro' James Grossman
8. Victims of the Home Front: Enemy Aliens in the United States during the First World War Jörg Nagler
9. From Relocation to Redress: Japanese Americans and Canadians, 1941-1988 Roger Daniels
10. Allies or Subversives? The Canadian Government's Ambivalent Attitude towards German-Canadians in the Second World War Robert Keyserlingk
Part IV: Australia
11. Fighting the War at Home: The Campaign against Enemy Aliens in Australia during the First World War Gerhard Fisher
12. 'Inspired by Patriotic Hysteria?': Internment Policy towards Enemy Aliens in Australia during the Second World War Kay Saunders
Index
